About This Statistic. This statistic shows the dollar sales of ice cream in the United States in 2017, by type. The sales of ice cream amounted to approximately 6.6 billion U.S. dollars in the 52 weeks ending May 27, 2017.
DEFINITION of 'Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)'. An ETF, or exchange traded fund, is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets like an index fund. Unlike mutual funds, an ETF trades like a common stock on a stock exchange. ETFs experience price changes throughout the day as they are bought and sold.
However, there is no need to be confused at because ETP simply stands for exchange traded product. An Exchange Traded Product is just the catch-all phrase for ETFs, ETNs and sometimes ETFs of ETFs, which are truly just ETFs as well. So when people refer to ETPâs they are just referring to notes and funds as a whole. All of the exchange traded products. As I said, there are two types of ETPs â notes (ETNs) and Funds (ETFs). But sometimes people do break ETFs of ETFs (funds of funds) into a third category as well. So letâs check out each of these categories that fall under exchange trade productsâ¦.